3 friends of suspect charged with post-attack cover-up

Authorities: Men didn't help plan or know about plot

10:38 PM,
May 1, 2013

Department of Homeland Security police officers stand watch Wednesday outside the Moakley Federal Courthouse in Boston. Three suspects were taken into custody in the Boston Marathon bombing case, including two college friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to officials.

Written by

Kevin Johnson
| USA Today

Three friends of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been charged with conspiring to obstruct justice and lying to investigators.

None are suspected of having advance knowledge of the plot or participating in the planning of the April 15 bombings, according to a law enforcement source.

Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, both 19 and from Kazakhstan in the U.S. on student visas, are accused of obstruction of justice and conspiring to conceal evidence, including Tsarnaev's backpack and laptop computer. A third, Robel Phillipos, 19, of Cambridge, Mass., is charged ...